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Manchester United have had an extremely eventful transfer season this summer. From the Scott McTominay U-Turn with Fulham to Chelsea’s aggressive attempts to sign Jadon Sancho, then there’s the double deal for Matthijs de Ligt and the dramatically long pursuit of Manuel Ugarte.
Now though, the window is shut so the only deals that can still be done are minimal and all include players leaving the club. The Dutch, Saudi Arabian, and Turkish transfer windows are still open for another week, to name a few. As a result, we could still see some of United’s priority offloads leaving the club.
Some of these desired departures include Christian Eriksen who’s been offered to his former club Ajax, and Casemiro who is being looked at by Galatasaray for a potential loan.
In a press briefing before the Liverpool game at Old Trafford, new CEO, Omar Berrada, and sporting director, Dan Ashworth spoke to reports about a range of things including their support of Erik ten Hag and their approach in the transfer window.
Reporters from The Athletic queried the approach used in this summer’s transfer market, specifically the power ten Hag had over these considering he’d worked with de Ligt and Mazraoui before, with Joshua Zirkzee making it a third Dutch signing with most of the new appointments in the coaching staff also being Dutch.
In response to this, Ashworth commented: “I can’t comment on what’s happened previously, I don’t know how they’ve made the decisions on players coming in, and as I’ve already alluded to, it’s a joined-up process.”
He continued: “We looked at objective, subjective opinions and came up with the best possible solution we can to fill the positions we have identified.
“It is natural in human nature to work with somebody you’ve worked with previously in all contexts, in all business contexts. I’m sure you guys have all done it as well.
“That is a natural sway because you know that person, because you know that player, but also we’ve signed a number of players this summer that haven’t worked with Erik previously: Yoro, Ugarte, he’d never worked with Zirkzee — and you can’t say just because he’s Dutch he knows him! You would put the whole of the English market to me! He’s not worked with him before.
“He’s worked with Matthijs and Nous previously and, as I’ve said before, they were both on our radar and it’s a joined-up decision on who comes in and out of this football club.”
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